Project Status: April 2002
The PhysTEC Management Team:
- Received full support from the NSF and FIPSE
- Received signed contracts from PPI sites
- Hired The Momentum Group for external evaluation of project
- Selected Hal Richtol as site visit consultant
- Held Second Annual PhysTEC Conference, September 28-30, 2001
- Helped Participating Institutions prepare Strategic Plans and provided
feedback
- Created PhysTEC logo
- Launched PhysTEC Web Site
- Produced and distributed PhysTEC brochures
- Designed PhysTEC Database and online data input system
- The first round of six one-day PPI site visits by has been completed.
Site visit reports document significant progress at the sites
- Set the second round of three-day site visits to the PPIs
- Continued planning the 3rd Annual PhysTEC Conference and Workshop
at Western Michigan University, June 27-29, 2002
- Presented PhysTEC papers at AAPT meeting in Philadelphia
- Presented PhysTEC update at APS Fellows reception in Los Angeles
- Held a PhysTEC reception for the APS March meeting
- Will give PhysTEC papers at the APS April meeting
- Received the External Evaluation Blueprint from the Momentum Group
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